Musicology

Julia Dokter holds a Ph.D in musicology  (Utrecht University), and a D.Mus in organ performance (McGill University), She currently teaches harpsichord, organ, and music history at Baylor.

Working at the conjunction between performance and musicology, her interests focus on the historical performance practice of baroque music. Her book "Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music" has been published by Rochester University Press (April 2021). She also has published a further study in German baroque tempo with the Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschedenis (TVNM) in 2021, and studies in baroque musical rhetoric with the TVNM (2011) and Ashgate (2013), including a Dutch translation (2012) and an abridged (English) version of the 2011 article in Het Orgel and The American Organist. She has presented her research at various conferences in Europe and America, and at the Curtis Institute for Music.

She is the recipient of the American Musicological Society's "Noah Greenberg Award" and the American Bach Society's "William H. Scheide Research Grant". 

She has previously taught at Georgia State University (Music History), Agnes Scott College (Organ), Brock University and Redeemer University College (Music Theory).